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Thanksgiving Trip

Sunday, November 25th, 2007

We made it! We had tons of fun! On the way up to Julie’s aunts we stopped at a rest area and took a short nap, we arrived at Julie’s aunts around 9:30 AM. We had a fabulous Thanksgiving dinner, then we headed to Silver Falls State Park, which was awesome. We saw several waterfalls and took a short hike to a waterfall which you could walk behind! That evening we drove up to Julie’s parents house in Vancouver Washington. We went to bed at about 11 PM.

On Friday morning at 4 AM we got up and headed off for the after Thanksgiving sales craziness. We went to Kohl’s first, the line wrapped around the entire store (I’m guessing it was at least a 2 hour wait), but we used the jewelry counter instead of waiting in that line. We went to Panera Bread for breakfast. We hit several other stores for more Christmas shopping, at Cost Plus World Market we arrived just in time to get the last couple free chocolate bars (they were giving them out to the first 100 customers). There was a scratch off game on the sleeve of the chocolate bar and I won a free bag of Ghirardelli chocolates!

We were planning on coming home on Saturday morning, but with all that we had done over the weekend were were exhausted on Saturday morning and we decided to get some more sleep before the 10 hour drive home. We left Julie’s parents on Sunday morning and we’re home now!

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Thanksgiving Plans

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

We’re going to be driving up to Julie’s aunt Jenny’s house in Mt. Angel Oregon, outside of Salem. We’re leaving tonight at around 11 PM, we should be arriving at Julie’s aunts around 9 AM on Thanksgiving day. It’s going to be so much fun. Julie can’t wait to see her family, it’s been awhile since we went up there. Our bags are packed! I went and got a bunch of snack food for the car ride, now it’s time for a quick nap before we head out.

New Washer and Dryer

Saturday, January 13th, 2007

Our brand new LG TROMM SteamWasher (clothes washer) and dryer arrived today. We decided to replace our old washer and dryer (we’re assuming it’s from when the condo was built, 18 years ago). Of course we had to have the best, and that’s what we got. Thanks to everyone who gave us money for Christmas to help buy our new washer and dryer.

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Christmas with the Rice Family

Saturday, December 30th, 2006

This Christmas we went up to see Julie’s family in Washington State. The festivities took place at her sisters’ house. We had tons of fun and it was great to hang out with Julie’s family.

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We brought the Wii with us, everyone had fun with that, some people tried to beat up the furniture. See the video:

Julie’s Company Holiday Party

Sunday, December 10th, 2006

We went to the John Muir Health Holiday party at AT&T Park last night. They had the entire club level for the party, there was tons of food and gambling. We ate too much, we played blackjack and craps and even won a prize (thanks to Astrida and Tim)!

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Christmas Tree, Oh Chirstmas Tree

Thursday, November 30th, 2006

We got our Christmas tree today and decorated it. It’s our first Christmas as married people in our new condo.

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Thanksgiving

Thursday, November 23rd, 2006

Thanks for a wonderful meal. We had a great time.

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